An Ipsos survey has found that almost half of SA households have gone without food due to COVID-19, raising fears that millions of malnourished South Africans may suffer severe illness if the third wave of COVID-19 infections hits SA because of their weaker immune systems.
“What was very interesting to see what the outcome was that of our top 3 already societal issues and economic issues, provinces which are the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal as well as North West came out the highest on all those indices.
So, for example, in KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape and North West the impact on the loss of income came up to above 60% and the suffering of stress and other illnesses came up to also above 60% as well as basically the hunger scourge which has been. I mean they were all recorded under emergency and they were going into a crisis and all those figures go up from between 51% to 58%,” says Interim CEO at Operation Hunger, Sandy Bukula.
Bukula elaborates on the survey findings in the video below:
Aid workers have expressed concerns about the worsening impact of the COVID 19 pandemic in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and the North West. This comes amid a rising number of infections in the country.
On Friday night, South Africa recorded yet another national increase of over a 1 000 coronavirus cases. The health department reported that 1 637 people tested positive for the virus in the latest reporting period.
KwaZulu-Natal has by far the highest number of active coronavirus cases at over 5 000.
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